United Farm Workers

The United Farm Workers (UFW) is a labor union for farm workers in the United States, founded in 1962 as the National Farm Workers' Association (NFWA). The NFWA was co-founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, and it initiated a five-year grape-pickers' strike in 1965. In 1972, the UFW joined the AFL-CIO union federation, but it switched to the Change to Win Federation in 2005. The UFW had 10,278 members in 2013